gg-big-org/trivy

Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more

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Trivy (pronunciation) is a comprehensive and versatile security scanner. Trivy has scanners that look for security issues, and targets where it can find those issues.

Targets (what Trivy can scan):

• Container Image
• Filesystem
• Git Repository (remote)
• Virtual Machine Image
• Kubernetes
• AWS

Scanners (what Trivy can find there):

• OS packages and software dependencies in use (SBOM)
• Known vulnerabilities (CVEs)
• IaC issues and misconfigurations
• Sensitive information and secrets
• Software licenses

Quick Start

Get Trivy

Trivy is available in most common distribution methods. The full list of installation options is available in the Installation page, here are a few popular options:

• apt-get install trivy
• yum install trivy
• brew install aquasecurity/trivy/trivy
• docker run aquasec/trivy
• Download binary from https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/releases/latest/

Trivy is integrated with many popular platforms and applications. The full list of integrations is available in the Ecosystem page. Here are a few popular options:

• GitHub Actions
• CircleCI
• Kubernetes operator
• VS Code plugin

General usage

trivy <target> [--security-checks <scanner1,scanner2>] <subject>

Examples:

trivy image python:3.4-alpine

Result

trivy-image.mov

trivy fs --security-checks vuln,secret,config myproject/

Result

trivy-fs.mov

trivy k8s --report summary cluster

Result

Highlights

• Comprehensive vulnerability detection
  • OS packages (Alpine Linux, Red Hat Universal Base Image, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CBL-Mariner, Oracle Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, openSUSE Leap, SUSE Enterprise Linux, Photon OS and Distroless)
  • Language-specific packages (Bundler, Composer, Pipenv, Poetry, npm, yarn, Cargo, NuGet, Maven, and Go)
  • High accuracy, especially Alpine Linux and RHEL/CentOS
• Supply chain security (SBOM support)
  • Support CycloneDX
  • Support SPDX
  • Generating and Scanning SBOM
  • Leveraging in-toto attestations
  • Integrated with Sigstore
• Misconfiguration detection (IaC scanning)
  • Wide variety of security checks are provided out of the box
  • Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and more
  • User-defined policies using OPA Rego
• Secret detection
  • A wide variety of built-in rules are provided out of the box
  • User-defined patterns
  • Efficient scanning of container images
• Simple
  • Available in apt, yum, brew, dockerhub
  • No pre-requisites such as a database, system libraries, or eny environmental requirements. The binary runs anywhere.
  • The first scan will finish within 10 seconds (depending on your network). Consequent scans will finish instantaneously.
• Fits your workflow
  • Great for CI such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.
  • Available as extension for IDEs such as vscode, jetbrains, vim
  • Available as extension for Docker Desktop, Rancher Desktop
  • See Ecosystem section in the documentation.

FAQ

How to pronounce the name "Trivy"?

tri is pronounced like trigger, vy is pronounced like envy.

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Trivy is an Aqua Security open source project.
Learn about our open source work and portfolio here.
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